End Chickens as KaporosAction Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM

ACTION

It sounds like something out of some weird "primitive" religion in an
"underdeveloped" country. But it's going on right now, as it does at this
time every year, in New York City, Los Angeles, Jerusalem and other cities
around the world that have orthodox Jewish populations.

In the "tradition" known as "kaporos" or "kapparot", on the eve of the
Day of Atonement you buy a live chicken from a dealer, tie her up in a
particularly cruel way, wave or swing her around your head or someone
else's, and then kill her. In doing this, you are said to have transferred
your sins to the chicken, who then conveniently dies for those sins.

INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

The
Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is hosting three 2-hour protest
demonstrations in Brooklyn, September 10-12, 2013, to protest the use of
chickens in Kaporos ceremonies the week before Yom Kippur – the Jewish Day
of Atonement – in which thousands of chickens are painfully waved by their
wings or legs and butchered in public ceremonies by many Orthodox Jews in
New York, Los Angeles, Jerusalem and elsewhere.

This year’s Brooklyn protests will feature ILLUMINATED BILLBOARDS on the
sides and back of a van projecting the voice of Hasidic Rabbi Yonassan
Gershom explaining why suspending chickens by their wings is cruel and why
using chickens for Kaporos violates the Torah mandate to show compassion to
animals instead of hurting them - watch
A Kaporos: A Heartfelt Plea.

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